Learning to speak, write and comprehend English perfectly is no child’s play. Except at Crossteps, where that’s exactly what it is.
We have carefully designed our curriculum to equip kids with the fundamentals of language —
- Phonics
- Spelling
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
- Writing
Our courses are divided into Junior (<5 years) and Senior (>5 years). Juniors are taught basic concepts from the ground up while Seniors are taught more advanced concepts and their applications.
A detailed breakdown of our syllabus is attached under.
Phonics Junior
- Sounds of consonants- single letter and 2 letters.
- Short vowel sounds- 3 /4 letter words
- Beginning and ending blends — 2 and 3 letters
- Sight words
- Consonant Diagraphs
- Long vowel sounds
- Magic ‘e’ at work
- Vowel diagraphs
Phonics Senior
- Revision of sounds of consonants- single letter and 2 letters.
- Short vowel sounds
- Beginning and ending blends — 2 and 3 letters
- Sight words
- Consonant Diagraphs
- Long vowel sounds
- Magic ‘e’ at work
- Vowel diagraphs — challenging diagraphs
- Diverse vowels sounds of ‘a’ ‘o’ ‘u’
- Delving into Diphthongs — ou/ow and oi /oy
- R –controlled Diphthongs
- Y as vowel sounds
- Dual personalities of ‘s’ ‘c’ and ‘g’
- Silent letters
- Schwa sounds
Spell Well Junior
- Fundamentals of Phonics Senior.
- Basic spelling rules
- Getting to know word segmentation.
- Word lists
- Jumbled words
- Word ladders
- Scrabble Strategies
- Word mazes
Spell Well Senior
- Fundamentals of Phonics Senior.
- Basic spelling rules
- Advanced spelling rules
- Spelling exceptions
- Spelling patterns e.g. ‘explanation’
- Word families
- Bigger word families
- Word roots
- Suffixes and prefixes
- Getting to know word segmentation.
- Silent letter words
- Use of ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ rules
- Contraction rules
- Challenging words
- Word lists
- Jumbled words
- Word ladders, Scrabble Strategies, Word mazes and more.
Grammar Junior
- Use of Dictionaries and Thesaurus
- Compound words
- Antonyms
- Nouns
- Proper and common nouns
- Singular and plural nouns and plural rules
- Collective nouns
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Tenses
-Present
-Past
-Future - Adjectives
- Comparing adjectives — positive, comparative , superlative forms
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Contractions
- Prepositions
- Punctuations
-Capital letter
-Full stops
-Question marks
-Exclamation marks
-Commas
-Apostrophes
-Speech marks - Adding Suffix
Grammar Senior
- Basics of grammar junior
- Nouns
-Naming words
-Common & proper nouns
-Collective & material nouns
-Abstract & concrete nouns
-Masculine, feminine, common gender nouns
-Countable & uncountable nouns
-Singular & plural nouns
-Possessive & compound nouns - Pronouns (other naming words)
-Pronouns
-Personal pronouns
-Reflexive & Demonstrative pronouns
-Possessive & Interrogative pronouns
-Indefinite & Distributive pronouns
-Relative pronouns - Articles
-Articles & indefinite articles
-Definite article ‘the’ - Adjectives (describing words)
-Adjectives
-Proper, descriptive & quantitative adjective
-Demonstrative, interrogative & possessive adjectives
-Numeral(adjectives of number)& comparison of adjectives - Prepositions
-Prepositions
-Prepositions of time
-Prepositions of place (movement) - Conjunctions
-Conjunctions
-Coordinating conjunctions
-Subordinating conjunctions
-Correlative conjunctions - Verbs
-Verbs ( action, be, have & helping verbs
-Types of verbs (transitive & intransitive verbs) - Adverbs
-Adverbs
-Adverbs of manner & interrogative adverbs
-Adverbs of time & place
-Adverbs of degree & frequency - Sentences
-Sentence
-Declarative & interrogative sentences
-Imperative & exclamatory sentences - Question tags
- Subject & predicate
-Tenses (Present, Past, Future)
-Simple present tense
-Present continuous tense
-Present perfect tense
-Present perfect continuous tense
-Simple past tense
-Past continuous tense
-Past perfect tense
-Past perfect continuous tense
-Simple future tense
-Future continuous tense
-Future perfect tense
-Future perfect continuous tense - Subject verb agreement
- Modals
-Modal verbs
-Modals, concepts and examples - Voice
-Active & passive voice
-Formation of passive voice
-Passives with double objects
-Passive forms of different types of sentences - Reported speech
-Reported speech
-Change in time and place
-Change in tenses
-Question forms of reported speech
-Orders and requests in reported speech - Phrases
-Types of phrases - Clauses
-Clauses ( independent & dependent clause)
-Noun clause
-Adjective clause
-Adverb clause - Finite & non-finite verbs
-Finite & non finite verbs
-Infinitives
-Gerunds
-Participles - Linking verbs
- Simple, compound & complex sentences
- Relative clause
-Relative clause
-Rules of relative clause - Punctuation
Creative Writing Junior
- Writing sentences
- Expanding sentences using adjectives and adverbs
- Writing dialogue
- Punctuation review
- Comprehension
- Sequential Writing
- Picture Composition
- Factual writing
- Paragraph Writing
- Imaginative / Descriptive writing
Creative Writing Senior
- Review of creative writing junior
- Figure of speech
-Simile
-Metaphor
-Personification
-Alliteration
-Onomatopoeia - Character Sketch
- Dialogue writing
- Recipe
- Descriptive writing
- Narratives
-Personal
-Imaginative
-Factual - Autobiographies
-Factual
-Imaginative - Story writing
- Poems
- Reports
- Procedures
- Letter Writing
- Recounts
-Personal
-Imaginative
-Factual - Exposition
- Summaries.
